Now that my "sin" topic has gotten some traffic and corrected some of my misgivings about Christian views on sin, I would like another religion-related question answered:
What does "spiritual" mean?
I have listened to hundreds of people talk about spirituality, and everybody except me seems to know what is being talked about.
For instance, in a wellness class that was required at BYU, it was briefly mentioned that there were some number of "areas of wellness," which included "mental," "emotional," and "spiritual" as three distinct concepts. I would personally have thought that mental and emotional essentially covered the spiritual thing.
Furthermore, I have often heard non-religious people and atheists talk about spiritual experiences; and non-religious experiences being described as spiritual by all kinds of people.
Is spirituality only a religious concept? Or is it broader than that?
What could it possibly mean outside of religious thinking?
Is there anything real about it? Or is it just a poetic way of viewing the world?
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